Austrian Family Horror- A case of ‘normalisation’ of incest?
By Majed Iqbal- “They appeared normal, just like any other family,†Guenter Prameiter, who runs a bakery just down the street, said. “They had a swimming pool in the garden. We would hear them [the children] laughing, the three of them,†said a third.
These were the comments raised by neighbours describing the Austrian father who kept captive his daughter Elisabeth, now 42, in three windowless underground rooms ever since she disappeared in 1984.